The NFL is Trying to Sell 8 Thursday Night Football Games for $800 Million

AA -The National Football League is looking to sell half of the Thursday Night Football package that currently airs on NFL Network. For the last two seasons, NFL Network has aired 13 games. It appears that the NFL will increase the Thursday night schedule to 16 games meaning NFL Network and the winning bidder would split the package right down the middle. Richard Sandomir of the New York Times reports that there would not be a shortage of bidders for the package. Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand tweets that this would be a one year deal that would be for the 2014 season. The Times’ Sandomir says that the NFL would prefer to see the games on a broadcast network on either one of its current partners, CBS, Fox or NBC, but would not rule out having them on cable, i.e., Fox Sports 1, NBCSN or TNT should Turner Sports put forth a bid. The NFL spokesman told Awful Announcing that no postseason games would be part of the package so this bid would be strictly for the regular season.

The best part of this? Nothing. Nothing is the best part of this. I don’t know one soul who gets excited over Thursday Night Football. Even when your team is playing, you’d rather it just be a Sunday afternoon, not a Thursday night. Nobody with a job and a life enjoys staying up on a Thursday to watch the Redskins lose another game then going into work hungover. And the games this year on TNF were atrocious. The players themselves say they don’t have enough time to recover and prepare for games on Thursday nights. The games are bad, the coverage is bad, and the time they are on is bad. And adding 3 more Thursday night games is ridiculous. Late in the season when teams are fighting for playoff spots, having to play on 3 days rest is brutal. But 800 million dollars for half of a season sounds pretty fucking good if you’re the NFL, and they sure as shit are not going to turn that down. Goodell gonna Goodell.

PS: Hoping FS1 pulls the upset and buys this. Need Regis and Good Ol’ JR in the booth.

I’ve always wondered why not make the Super Bowl on a Saturday? If the NFL/America isnt going to make Super Bowl Monday a national holiday it seems like the only reasonable solution. There is already a two-week break in between the champtionship games and the Super Bowl so why not? I know ratings are high enough, its the fucking Super Bowl after all, but just imagine not having to worry about waking up early the next day to stumble into work knowing that all football is over for the next 6 months.

Let me explain this to you. The NFL is a business and in America we operate under a capitalistic model in which the goal of most if not all businesses is to make money. By moving TNF games to Sunday, they are competing against themselves, hence less revenue. You need to take more trips to Boston to learn how business works from the master Jew.

It will go to a cable network that my provider (Cablevision aka Jim Dolan aka dickhead supreme) will immediately require me to upgrade my service to get. I finally broke down for NFL Network and now they’re de-valuing it. Fuck them all, I’m done.

Thursday Night Football blows. The broadcast sucks, the games suck, there’s no reason to have them. It sucks when your team plays Thursday and then you got nothing to look forward to on Sunday. Roger Goodell is trying to single handedly ruin a good thing with overexposure. Too much is not necessarily a good thing. Don’t need the 18 game schedule, more playoff teams, teams overseas, more games during the week… that shit isn’t and wasn’t needed to make the NFL as popular as it is. If the product on the field was getting better then maybe but the product is getting worse because guys can no longer touch each other without getting a flag.